Marlena Binkiewicz

Marlena Binkiewicz

Associate
Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i Wspólnicy Spółka Komandytowa

Biography

Marlena Binkiewicz is a senior associate in the Warsaw Real Estate & Construction team. She is a Polish qualified lawyer admitted to the Warsaw Bar Association. Before joining the Baker McKenzie team, she worked at a renowned law firm in Warsaw for a year.

Practice Focus

Marlena has experience in all aspects of real estate law, from due diligence analysis to post-investment stages. She has coordinated the finalization of real estate projects on numerous occasions. She has experience in real estate transactions (both share and asset deals) and construction projects in Poland and the MENA region. She has also advised many international and domestic companies on lease agreements and service agreements.

Marlena has enriched her professional experience by working in the Real Estate team in Dubai as part of a secondment program. Throughout this program, she had the opportunity to participate in contract negotiations, such as hotel management agreements, technical agreements, service agreements, and license agreements. Marlena also participated in share deal transactions in which one of the assets owned by the company was a developed property in the form of a hotel or office building.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Assisted logistics developers in Poland on an asset transaction concerning logistic projects in Poland.
  • Team member assisting Google on the acquisition of The Warsaw HUB office complex in Warsaw.
  • Supported the transaction related to the purchase of a majority stake in the Krakow-based developer Sento.
  • Team member of the transaction of acquisition of two office buildings in Warsaw.
  • Participated in a project related to Olayan Financing Company’s acquisition of a 24.5% stake in ICD Brookfield Place, located in the Dubai International Financial Center.

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Warsaw Bar Association - Member
  • Urban Land Institute in Poland - Member

Admissions

  • Warsaw~Poland (2022)

Education

  • Cardinal Wyszynski University (2015)
  • University of Coimbra (2014)

Languages

  • Polish
  • English

Represented Baker McKenzie at the prestigious Hotel Investment Trends Poland and CEE 2024 and 2025 organized by Hotelarz magazine – the largest forum in Poland and the CEE region on investments in the hotel industry.